Armin K. wrote: > On 08/21/2012 12:18 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Oracle is not playing nice. >> >> http://blog.mariadb.org/disappearing-test-cases/ >> >> What do you think about dropping mysql and replacing with mariadb? >> >> -- Bruce > > I am also not qualified, but as Randy pointed out "MariaDB is an > alternative, not a replacement for MySQL.", so it is not the same. This > looks to me like when OpenOffice.org got forked as LibreOffice because > of Oracle. > > Also, as Matt pointed out, most users really don't care about running > testcases, so I suggest we don't do anything just yet. You can add > MariaDB as an alternative (new page) to MySQL with proper warnings/links > and such if you desire so. > > If things continue the way like they do now, I guess other distros will > do something about it. If they decide to drop it or replace it, we can > follow. But I wouldn't like for BLFS to be an exception just yet or to > hurry somewhere what could be solved in some time. > > Short story: Give it some more time.
OK! I guess we should just keep an eye on it for now. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
